Swaledale Wills and Inventories 1522-1600 (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series)

210 16th-century wills from the Archdeaconry of Richmond , giving information on houses and their contents, clothes, food, farming, leadmining, the woollen industry and other trades; also property-holding, status and rights of women, upbringing of children, charitable bequests and the settlement of disputes - all against the background of great religious and social change.